Interception
State Surveillance from Postal Systems to Global Networks
$120.96
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
1 July 2025
Summary
A media history of how the UK and US governments have surveilled citizens by intercepting their private communications.
It may not be Big Brother (yet), but the state is watching you—watching all of us, in fact—systematically intercepting our private communications and putting them to work in its own interests. In Interception, a media genealogy of the surveillance state at its most intimate, Bernard Keenan investigates the emergence of this practice as a governmental power a…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262552578 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262552574 |
| Author: | Bernard Keenan |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Release Date: | 1 July 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm |
| Series: | History and Foundations of Information Science |
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Critics Review
“Interception makes a commendable socio-legal contribution to the history of media and surveillance studies. Those in legal history, public policy, and human rights would justifiably find this read beneficial.”
—International Journal of Communication
About The Author
Bernard Keenan
Bernard Keenan is Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. He works at the intersection of law, social theory, and new technologies.
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